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The "Local Institutional Church" Series
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INTRODUCTION: THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: DISTORTED AND DEFORMED
CHAPTER ONE: THE "C-H-U-R-C-H" TAKES SHAPE
CHAPTER TWO: ACTS 19:23-41
CHAPTER THREE: "C-H-U-R-C-H"..."C-H-U-R-C-H"... AND MORE "C-H-U-R-C-H"
CHAPTER FOUR: PARRHSIA
CHAPTER FIVE: AUTHORITY AND THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
CHAPTER SIX: SATAN AND THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
CHAPTER SEVEN: DIVISIONS AND THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
CHAPTER EIGHT: MARRIAGE, THE FAMILY AND THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH
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Old Testament Forms
In aligning itself to the religious patterns of the day, the historic Orthodox Church after Constantine in the 4th century AD adopted a religious system which was in essence Old Testament, complete with priests, altar, a Christian temple, frankincense and a Jewish, synagogue-style worship pattern.
The Roman Catholic Church went on to canonize the system. Luther did reform the content of the gospel, but left the outer forms of “church” remarkably untouched.
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“SURRENDER”
1) A twisted term to bind your conscience to pastoral demands; 2) Abandoning others for the good of the church.
“Sarah is showing signs of surrender. She comes to all of the stated meetings!”
To set up the teaching of any man, or set of men, as an "authority" is a
return to Romanism.
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"The Pastoral Office"
“It is impossible to build other Christians up if you’re not regularly gathering together for corporate worship.”
God’s Ecclesia – Not Ours
The Greek word often translated as “church” in most English versions is (ekklēsia, or ecclesia). The word is a compound word meaning “called-out” (ek = “out”; “klēsi” = called).
The ecclesia is God’s “called-out” ones.
The ecclesia is not a building or denomination; not a meeting, or doctrinal creed; it is not somewhere we go, or something we do. It is who we as believers are. Eight times the apostle Paul uses the phrase “the ecclesia of God." This possessive phrase leaves no doubt as to Whom the ecclesia belongs. It is the creation and possession of God.
If “the ecclesia of God” is not ours, how do we presume to start it, form it, name it, organize it and govern it?
How do we have the audacity to create its doctrine, articles of faith and bylaws?
God started His ecclesia, and He alone governs it. It is organic.
You DO NOT “go to it,” or “join it.”
The Scriptural model for leadership in His (Ekklesia) is that of a household slave. What is the model in
your church?
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